Prescriptivist or Descriptivist?

I had never thought about what I considered myself to be: a presecriptivist or a descriptivist. Now that I have read the article Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt? I have a better idea of what category I fall in. Since I was little I have considered myself to be more of an english type of student than math. Some people like math because it has only one answer, but for me it is more interesting to have different answers because it leaves room for creativity and making choices. Thus I am a prescriptivist.

Arriving to CNG in 5th grade was not only a big transformation from country and friends but also from language. When I arrived to Colombia I thought that English was going to be the least of my worries because my frist language was actually English. But when I arrived I was surprised to find that my English teachers thought that my wirting was strange. At first I didnt understnad, I thought that I might know more than them, but then it stroke out to me when they strated to write FAVORITE instead of FAVOURITE. That is when I learened that Canada’s way of writing English is as the British do, and here it was all American. Although it started to frusturate me, I actually found it interesting. That was the momento when I realizad that I really liked to write, speacally because I could argue why I was still write of writing COLOUR with a U instead of just with an O, or writing centre as CENTRE instead of CENTER.

Both authors make interesting points, and both defend their positions, but I like the presecriptivist better because although they think that what they say is the write thing, they all argue to defend their form of writing.